Coordinating Agent Output

You've got three agents working in parallel. Each one produces clean, well-written code in its own worktree. But now comes the part that trips up most teams: putting it all together. Three agents means three branches, three sets of changes, and the very real possibility that some of those changes conflict with each other.

Coordination is the tax you pay for parallelism. Getting good at it means paying less tax while keeping the speed benefits.

The Merge Challenge

When agents work in isolated worktrees, they each start from the same snapshot of main. As they make changes, their branches diverge. The longer they work and the more files they touch, the more likely conflicts become.

main ────────────────────────────────
  \
   ├── agent-1/feature-settings ── modifies auth.ts, a